Journal rankings · indicator year 2019
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Global ranking · 2019
Journal rankings 2019
21,252 ranked journals in 4 domains, 26 fields and 252 subfields
This release ranks 21,252 journals for 2019. The median journal has an OJR of 0.82, below the world average of 1.00, unchanged on 2018; Q1 starts at OJR 1.46. The top three are CA A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, MMWR Surveillance Summaries, and The Quarterly Journal of Economics. Small journals can score very high; only journals with at least 30 citable documents are ranked.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2019. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.
Journals whose main subfield sits in this category and that published at least 30 citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) in 2016–2018, the window the 2019 score is computed on.
The OpenJournalRank Indicator (OJR) is a free, publicly available metric of a journal’s field-normalized citation impact, computed from open OpenAlex citation data. It compares citations to a journal’s papers from the previous three years with the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and values can be compared across fields. It is computed with the NCI3 method.
The middle OJR among ranked journals in this category: half score higher, half lower. 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type.
The dot is this category, the solid tick is the median of all ranked journals and the dashed line is the world average.
Share of ranked journals in this category that are fully open access, so every paper is free to read. Hybrid journals, which sell subscriptions and open single papers for a fee, are not counted.
Median list price of the article processing charge, in US dollars, among ranked journals in this category that list a price above zero. Journals with a listed APC of $0 and journals with no known price are left out of this median. The At a glance table below gives a second median that includes the $0 prices.
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Rank is the position by OJR within the list on screen; 1 is the highest. | OJR is field-normalized 3-year citation impact: 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so values compare across fields. The badge is the journal’s quartile in this list. | Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is not field-normalized, so compare it only between journals of the same field. ▲ or ▼ is the change from 2018. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2016–2018, the window the 2019 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2016–2018 papers that are free to read in any open-access form. The green OA tag next to a title marks a fully open-access journal. | List price of the article processing charge in US dollars. “$0 listed” means the listed price is zero; a dash means no price is listed. | The line is the journal’s OJR from 2010 to 2019. | Compare |
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1CA A Cancer Journal for CliniciansOAWiley · United States | 105.99Q1 | 337.61 97.35 up from 2018 | 81 | 100% | $4,330 | ||
2MMWR Surveillance SummariesOACenters for Disease Control and Prevention · United States | 29.78Q1 | 56.13 8.74 up from 2018 | 52 | 100% | — | ||
3The Quarterly Journal of EconomicsOxford University Press · United States | 22.56Q1 | 17.65 1.76 up from 2018 | 133 | 59% | $7,619 | ||
4Reviews of Modern PhysicsAmerican Physical Society · United States | 20.55Q1 | 50.00 7.85 up from 2018 | 127 | 88% | — | ||
5The Journal of Economic PerspectivesOAAmerican Economic Association · United States | 20.12Q1 | 20.07 8.10 up from 2018 | 146 | 100% | — | ||
6Annual Review of Applied LinguisticsCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 17.24Q1 | 3.82 1.27 down from 2018 | 47 | 35% | $3,550 | ||
7Academy of Management AnnalsRoutledge · United States | 15.97Q1 | 18.48 1.82 up from 2018 | 96 | 31% | — | ||
8Physics ReportsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 14.25Q1 | 29.69 1.29 down from 2018 | 155 | 44% | $6,240 | ||
9New England Journal of MedicineMassachusetts Medical Society · United States | 14.08Q1 | 29.25 0.76 up from 2018 | 3,095 | 38% | — | ||
10American Political Science ReviewCambridge University Press · United States | 13.81Q1 | 8.50 3.31 up from 2018 | 228 | 54% | $3,550 | ||
11Journal of democracyJohns Hopkins University Press · United States | 13.76Q1 | 5.24 0.62 down from 2018 | 221 | 3% | — | ||
12Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological ScienceOASAGE Publishing · United States | 13.61Q1 | 17.05no 2018 value | 43 | 68% | $2,000 | — | |
13Social Issues and Policy ReviewWiley · United States | 13.56Q1 | 10.96 1.57 down from 2018 | 32 | 56% | $3,800 | ||
14IEEE Communications Surveys & TutorialsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 13.39Q1 | 26.13 0.10 up from 2018 | 388 | 43% | $2,645 | ||
15American Sociological ReviewSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 12.86Q1 | 10.80 1.40 up from 2018 | 136 | 30% | $3,900 | ||
16International SecurityThe MIT Press · United States | 12.62Q1 | 5.71 0.94 up from 2018 | 78 | 33% | — | ||
17American Journal of Political ScienceWiley · United States | 12.24Q1 | 8.18 1.40 up from 2018 | 149 | 39% | $4,100 | ||
18The Internet and Higher EducationElsevier BV · United States | 11.93Q1 | 11.79 3.55 up from 2018 | 83 | 8% | $4,120 | ||
19The LancetElsevier BV · Netherlands | 11.74Q1 | 21.60 0.38 up from 2018 | 2,976 | 58% | $7,890 | ||
20Communications of the ACMAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 11.69Q1 | 23.36 4.92 up from 2018 | 847 | 28% | — | ||
21Transactions of the Association for Computational LinguisticsOAAssociation for Computational Linguistics | 11.42Q1 | 23.26 4.47 up from 2018 | 124 | 100% | — | ||
22Critical Historical StudiesUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 11.40Q1 | 0.22 1.03 down from 2018 | 33 | 12% | — | ||
23Review of Research in EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 11.26Q1 | 10.09 5.15 up from 2018 | 58 | 42% | $2,500 | ||
24Journal of MarketingSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 11.19Q1 | 7.74 3.13 down from 2018 | 151 | 34% | $5,400 | ||
25Progress in Energy and Combustion ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 11.17Q1 | 29.40 8.33 up from 2018 | 105 | 38% | $6,990 | ||
26South European Society & PoliticsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 11.15Q1 | 5.83 1.95 up from 2018 | 88 | 60% | — | ||
27Journal of European Public PolicyRoutledge · United Kingdom | 11.10Q1 | 6.75 1.37 up from 2018 | 293 | 55% | — | ||
28Reviews of GeophysicsWiley · United States | 10.83Q1 | 23.46 5.74 up from 2018 | 81 | 71% | $3,880 | ||
29Clinical Microbiology ReviewsAmerican Society for Microbiology · United States | 10.80Q1 | 23.37 3.54 up from 2018 | 104 | 96% | — | ||
30International OrganizationUniversity of Cambridge · United States | 10.37Q1 | 9.22 4.30 up from 2018 | 130 | 39% | $3,550 | ||
31Tourism ManagementElsevier BV · Netherlands | 10.32Q1 | 9.44 2.34 up from 2018 | 682 | 26% | $4,690 | ||
32Journal of Statistical SoftwareOAFoundation for Open Access Statistics · United States | 10.28Q1 | 19.52 3.36 up from 2018 | 281 | 100% | — | ||
33Progress in Materials ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 10.27Q1 | 31.84 5.84 up from 2018 | 173 | 44% | $6,040 | ||
34Big Data & SocietyOASAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 10.24Q1 | 9.22 1.03 up from 2018 | 138 | 100% | $2,000 | ||
35IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine IntelligenceIEEE Computer Society · United States | 10.24Q1 | 15.68 1.72 down from 2018 | 852 | 46% | $2,645 | ||
36CellCell Press · United States | 9.89Q1 | 32.06 3.59 up from 2018 | 1,876 | 99% | $11,400 | ||
37Journal of Interactive MarketingSAGE Publishing · United States | 9.86Q1 | 9.11 1.78 up from 2018 | 97 | 40% | $5,400 | ||
38Journal of Economic GrowthSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 9.82Q1 | 3.95 3.49 down from 2018 | 34 | 46% | $4,290 | ||
39Comparative Political StudiesSAGE Publishing · United States | 9.73Q1 | 5.99 0.29 down from 2018 | 201 | 35% | $3,900 | ||
40Sociology of EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 9.65Q1 | 5.98 1.93 up from 2018 | 63 | 18% | $3,650 | ||
41Educational ResearcherSAGE Publishing · United States | 9.64Q1 | 6.40 0.57 up from 2018 | 157 | 28% | $2,500 | ||
42Progress in Human GeographySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 9.56Q1 | 6.37 0.92 up from 2018 | 199 | 42% | $3,900 | ||
43European Journal of Political ResearchOAWiley · United Kingdom | 9.53Q1 | 5.01 0.86 up from 2018 | 179 | 57% | $3,550 | ||
44American Educational Research JournalSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 9.50Q1 | 5.89 0.77 up from 2018 | 186 | 16% | $2,500 | ||
45Nature EnergyNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 9.50Q1 | 25.55 1.59 down from 2018 | 658 | 36% | $12,690 | ||
46Government Information QuarterlyElsevier BV · United States | 9.43Q1 | 8.01 1.03 up from 2018 | 211 | 43% | $4,360 | ||
47Materials Science and Engineering R ReportsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 9.41Q1 | 30.47 3.64 up from 2018 | 45 | 30% | $6,150 | ||
48West European PoliticsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 9.41Q1 | 4.13 0.51 up from 2018 | 223 | 72% | — | ||
49Modern Language JournalWiley · United States | 9.27Q1 | 5.59 0.69 up from 2018 | 151 | 24% | $3,800 | ||
50Nature MedicineNature Portfolio · United States | 9.21Q1 | 26.46 5.24 up from 2018 | 828 | 50% | $12,690 |
All 26 fields, compared. Choose a field to open its ranking.
- MedicineHealth Sciences4,487
- Social SciencesSocial Sciences3,028
- EngineeringPhysical Sciences2,358
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyLife Sciences1,369
- Agricultural and Biological SciencesLife Sciences1,134
- Computer SciencePhysical Sciences1,124
- PsychologySocial Sciences1,008
- Environmental SciencePhysical Sciences907
- Economics, Econometrics and FinanceSocial Sciences849
- Business, Management and AccountingSocial Sciences731
- MathematicsPhysical Sciences593
- Health ProfessionsHealth Sciences585
- Arts and HumanitiesSocial Sciences507
- Materials SciencePhysical Sciences467
- Earth and Planetary SciencesPhysical Sciences407
- Physics and AstronomyPhysical Sciences367
- NeuroscienceLife Sciences328
- ChemistryPhysical Sciences233
- Decision SciencesSocial Sciences187
- DentistryHealth Sciences187
- Immunology and MicrobiologyLife Sciences131
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and PharmaceuticsLife Sciences75
- VeterinaryHealth Sciences67
- NursingHealth Sciences64
- EnergyPhysical Sciences46
- Chemical EngineeringPhysical Sciences13
Journals
Citations made in 2019. Corpus-wide, 83.4% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
6,044 additional journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2016–2018, at least 80% of them with a subfield, and a positive world-average expectation. Ranks are within the whole category; filters hide rows without re-ranking. OJR excludes self-citations.
At a glance
Indicator year: 2019. Publication window: 2016–2018. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 21,252
- Window papers (baseline)
- 13,360,605 -2.6% from indicator year 2016
- Median OJR
- 0.822 -4.8% from indicator year 2016
- Rising journals (2025)
- 1,582
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2016–2018 in all journals of the world-average baseline, including non-core journals, counted by each paper’s own subfield. They are not the papers of the ranked journals alone.
| Measure | Year series | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
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| Ranked journals | 9,334 | 9,882 | 10,465 | 10,963 | 11,336 | 11,787 | 12,241 | 12,896 | 13,532 | 14,190 | 14,881 | 15,682 | 16,548 | 17,494 | 18,331 | 19,108 | 19,793 | 20,381 | 20,896 | 21,252 | 21,436 | 21,674 | 21,881 | 21,925 | 21,772 | 21,493 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 4,957,530 | 5,479,186 | 5,909,824 | 6,400,037 | 6,719,812 | 7,257,868 | 7,834,893 | 8,493,980 | 9,133,243 | 9,844,442 | 10,531,968 | 11,212,660 | 11,823,613 | 12,322,010 | 12,852,915 | 13,340,497 | 13,715,975 | 13,759,987 | 13,523,013 | 13,360,605 | 13,565,535 | 14,325,423 | 15,089,410 | 15,369,095 | 15,403,861 | 15,824,017 | |
| Median OJR | 0.66 | 0.68 | 0.71 | 0.75 | 0.76 | 0.791 | 0.838 | 0.862 | 0.89 | 0.919 | 0.93 | 0.941 | 0.935 | 0.915 | 0.90 | 0.88 | 0.863 | 0.843 | 0.83 | 0.822 | 0.823 | 0.794 | 0.777 | 0.7721 | 0.7719 | 0.784 |
How to read these rankings
- OJR, the OpenJournalRank Indicator
- A field-normalized 3-year citation impact, computed from OpenAlex with the NCI3 method. It divides the citations a journal’s papers received by the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and 2.00 means twice as many citations as expected. Because it is normalized, it can be compared across fields. Read the methodology
- Quartiles
- Q1 to Q4 split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. A journal’s quartile depends on the list: the same journal can be Q1 in its subfield and Q2 among all journals.
- Impact factor (2-year)
- Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is easy to compare with familiar impact factors but is not field-normalized, so compare it only within a field. It is not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. Why it differs from the Journal Impact Factor
- Rank ranges
- Each rank in the latest year carries a likely range from 1,000 resamples of the journal’s papers. Where two journals’ ranges overlap, the data cannot tell them apart, so treat neighbouring ranks as ties.